This will be a persuasive essay based on the book savage enequalities describing the differences and the connections of points that the book made that still occurs today .
I will cover poorly covered school systems ,bad teachers , and how things are set up to protect the wealthy.first I will give a brief description of the book then I will talk about a couple points in the book that stood out to me that I feel still goes on today in urban city schools. Savage inequalitys is hands down the most depressing book I read compared to to the book a child called it in a long time .
The author kozol over the years gathered information from the 1988 to 1990 about American schools basically about east saint Louis ,Chicago ,and New York , and his plan as a educator was to compare and contrast urban schools which were mainly black, Latino,and Asian ,with suburban schools which are primarily white .kozol was trying to compare the enequalities between theses different school systems .
Even thought the differences between the two towns could be measured in minutes on a bridge or on a high way you can walk from one community to the other and see that there a lot of differences between the two groups .in east saint Louis it was so bad that the sewer system backed into the streets on a regular basis .the schools had no equipment no books .one of the schools in New York was a old roller skating rink that had class rooms with no windows with children over crammed into a room . The book talks about the teacher how the teacher are under trained for the job and are shipped into the schools of the urban community beacause they don't care if the urban students get a education . He talked about the school that had gyms for excercise that you couldn't use because they were crammed full of class room that were crammed some times five and six classes going on all at once ,of classes that had up to thirty five kids per class. One class he talked about had forty five students in it on opening day and the principal said don't worry about it by Christmas half of them will be gone . So the school systems were already factoring in that half their students would drop out.
So that the teacher will then have a class size small enough to handle.
They weren't to concerned about keeping the kids in the class because they knew that they couldn't .
They new they would disappear .the fact that they had one truency officer who was responsible for keeping four hundred kids of the street during school hours kind makes u think that the school system really didn't care about these kids ditching either .he talked about the urban schools receiving half the money that suburban schools did .its crazy because the bulk of the money that goes to pay for school in the United States comes from property taxes , which means that poor community's have less money to put into their schools than wealthy community's do , but even though that's the fact poor community's often tax themselves at a higher rate so that more money will go into their schools yet they still have less that the rich community's ,because even at a higher tax rate the poor community cannot generate the funds being that the property taxes are so much lower in the poor community's.
Rich community's not only have lots of money but also a lower tax rate meaning that they have more Coin in their pocket that they can then use as a discretionary amount if they want to donate money to their school in which the often do, basically something people living in a poor community cannot do
. I think that since then this whole property tax thing has been used a tool used buy those in power to make sure that they stay in power kinda like what we been talking about in class the rich protecting their own which is true and still stands today .now days they go by zip code if you stay in east oakland you can't go to a piedmont school unless u live in that neighborhood even though
The school is in the same city u won't be allowed in kinda makes u think what the real reason why they do that looks like the segregation between the white and the black community's of oakland
The poor live on the the fats and the rich come down from the hills and ride past looking at us as if we have no chance in life. The way it's set up is making sure that the poor community's have no funding schools with holes in the wall and in the roof school that have no playgrounds art programs or music classes is all done by design so that the poor and uneducated stay poor and uneducated .they wanna keep you at a slaves level w so that you will never amount to any thing but a worker to help build the next mans dream , while the rich and wealthy community s remain rich and wealthy with easy dreams to be lived because they were born with the silver spoon good education is paid for.
Let's not make it a black and white thing beacause even in a couple years white people will be apart of the minority and the method of funding schools is always going to insure that they will be in charge because their school systems are always going to be wealthy and token care of providing their children with the best in education their are going to be the governors of our society .were Asa the children that will grow up in the poor community will be the governed .this may not last forever but I believe it will leak out a few more generations of the rich and educated class being in charge .
And yes I do have a couple of possible solution that may fix this ,and that is
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